preamp out, headphones?

ok so now that i have my peavey vb-2 i brought my 60 watt peavey combo home. there's no actual headphone jack on it and i thought i'd ask if it was ok to plug my headphones into that. I have$80 subwoofer speaker headphones so i didn't want to just plug it in and blow something. of course it has both pre and post gain knobs so i should be able to jsut use those for volume. just making sure before i try it.

The problem that I could potentially see here is that there's no amplification of sound. You have your preamp, but no power, and unless your headphones are self-powered then I don't think it would make a sound. You could try though. I can't imagine anything bad coming out of it, as long as you put the volume at zero and then work your way up to volume slowly.

pre-amp out is a line-level signal, not powerfull enough to drive headphones. What you could try and do is rund a jack-jack from your pre-amp out to the line-in on your pc. Easy fix that should work.If you want no sound to come trough the amp, turn down the master volume. If that doesn't work, plug in a cable in the fx-return or power-amp in. The other end of the cable you don't plug in anywhere. This should cut the signal going from pre-amp to poweramp.

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the lack of a headphone jack was probably a design decision to help keep the model at a given price point

Doubt it. It really shouldn't cost THAT much extra to include a headphone jack, any extra circuitry and any power requirements. Hell, my first practice amp had a headphone jack and it costs £60 new. As do a lot of those kinds of amps.

The exclusion of a headphone jack is probably down to the fact that a 60 watt amp is generally louder than a 10 or 30 watt amp, which are more likely to have a headphone jack. If you're using a 60 watt amp for practice, it's probably safe to assume you can use that volume without the headphones when practicing.